I have heard a lot of talk about hashtables from time to time. They are supposed to be very cool ways of storing data where the index you use to look up the data is somehow the data itself.

But...

OK, I am going to use the STL list. I want to have each node have two strings. Here is how far I have gotten:


#include <list> // list class-template definition

using namespace std;
...

I got a list of items to program in Visual C++.

I could write a linked list from scratch but I want to do something special and best. I am thinking about a hash table.

What is best, linked...

Apart from buying BoundsChecker or any of the other tools to track down memory leaks. Does anyone have any advice or tips from your years of programming experience to offer on how to track down the...

If you wanted to override the closing of an application in MFC such that when the user clicks to close the program, it hesitates until other threads are closed, how would you do it. In other words,...

The DLL is in Debug mode. I do not use LoadLibrary, instead it is connected to the app using manifest files.

I have a C++ program I am debugging in Visual Studio 2005 IDE. It uses a DLL. I have the source code for the DLL. Now, suppose I want to debug and step through the DLL. How do I attach this to my...

I am working on a windows XP system. I am doing a command line compile and link using a makefile. It works except for the fact that it cannot find some header files.

It has been a long time...

Methods before Members or Members before Methods?

In a header file, which do you define/declare first. Do you list all your variables before the methods (also known as functions), or do you do it...

Can anyone tell me anything about manifest files? Anything at all. I have never worked with them until now and they are a mystery to me. I have to include one in a build and I only get an error at...

Is there an ActiveX control for a display from a cam? There must be one that I can drop into an MFC application.

In the resource editor there is a button for a "Custom Control" in the 2005 IDE...

How do I capture the Enter Key event in an edit control?

I have so far inherited my own class from CEdit and I am capturing the input keys but it the method used to do this does not receive the...

I figured it out.
It had to do with a comment that said something like:
// Call-Back Messages

I had it on the wrong line, when I moved it, it was fixed.

Something else I noticed. IN the class view, if I click to see the properties of a class, the properties also does not come up.

But I am just curious because I don't want to have to rewrite the whole program. What makes the Event Handler Wizard greyed out?

When I am in the resource editor and I right click on a menu item...

OK, I don't know why the options were greyed out. But I started a new project and it works.

THANKS!

OK but MS Studio 2005 does not have class wizard like I was used to.
But I think I am close.
I have gone to the munu and right clicked and selected "Add Event Handler Wizard" that seems like it...

I got the menu appearing now.

But there is a new problem. When I mouse over the menu item the action is taken rather than if I click on the menu item.

I mean, the menu comes up alright but I...

I am looking for a good example of how to do a pop-up menu in MFC. I have found this bit of code:

void CMyView::OnRButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)
{
CView::OnRButtonDown(nFlags,...

I have an MFC SDI application and I want to send a message from the MainFrm class to the View class. How do you get a view class from an associate MainFrm class in MFC?

It is right-click on the control and select Add Variable.:cool:

Thank you. This is a big help. I will play with it. I hope you can do things like, override or create a method in the CMainFrame class for when the user makes a menu selection this way. For...

I am used to VC 6.0 and the class wizard. Now I am using Visual Studio 2005. How do I launch the class wizard from a menu command. I have found that if I double click on a dialog box, the class...

What is the difference in these two lines?

#define X 100
const int Y 100;

Apart from the fact that one is for X and the other is for Y (har har, very funny) effectively don't they do the same...

Does anyone have any experience with the free Microsoft development enviroment called Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

I have downloaded and installed it and I notice it is a lot different than...

What I am looking to do is to provide the user (who runs my program) with a list of devices that they can pick from. You can do this with an Open File dialog if you click on "My Computer". What I...

Included file not found during compile time.

This must be an easy question for you to answer.

I have a header file (basetsd.h) that is located in the
C:\Program Files\Microsooft Visual...

The file that the code is tryong to link to is CdrvHF32.lib

I got a Link error 1181 with fresh code from source safe. It is looking for a dll that is in the windows/system32 directory and cannot find it.


So how do I set the path to it?

I do not see...

What are some of the pluses and minuses of MFC? I think it is better to do a lot of things that are complicated without it. Any thoughts?

Lots of good help.

I will add to your rep.

Now I want to know is this.

How do I open a window in a seperately called thread of execution?

I cannot do it in MFC because MFC requires its...

Ok.

Are these things that require MFC? The information I got from Microsoft was __declspc(thread), _beginthread() and _endthread()

This is a little embarassing asking this because I used to know this. How do you create a seperate thread in C++ and have mutexes, semiphores and all that. I have forgotten and I wonder if anyone...

I want to set the command line options for the linker in a C++
project in a .NET IDE

If I click on Project in the menu
and then on Properties a window comes up showing several Configuration...

I am writing my first C++ .NET program. For reasons I will not go into, I have to write a GUI in a dll called from an executable. All this is done without MFC.

Right now the button bar classes...